Igby Goes Down (2002)

Regisseur:

Burr Steers

Drehbuchautor (WGA):

Burr Steers (written by)

Premierendatum:

1. Mai 2003 (Österreich)

Genre:

Komödie | Drama

Werbezeile:

Insanity is relative

Plot:

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.

Plot Keywords:

Drug Abuse | Dysfunctional Family | Catcher In The Rye | Vegetarian | Marijuana

Filmpreise:

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 7 wins & 8 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Very interesting debut by Burr Steers with uniformly great performances

US TV Schedule:

Sat. July 26

1:00 PM

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Besetzung

Kieran Culkin	...	Jason 'Igby' Slocumb, Jr.
Claire Danes	...	Sookie Sapperstein
Jeff Goldblum	...	D.H. Banes
Jared Harris	...	Russel
Amanda Peet	...	Rachel
Ryan Phillippe	...	Oliver 'Ollie' Slocumb
Bill Pullman	...	Jason Slocumb
Susan Sarandon	...	Mimi Slocumb
Rory Culkin	...	10-Year-Old Igby
Peter Anthony Tambakis	...	13-Year-Old Oliver (as Peter Tambakis)
Bill Irwin	...	Lt. Ernest Smith, Pershing Academy
Kathleen Gati	...	Ida
Gannon Forrester	...	Little Cadet
Celia Weston	...	Bunny
Elizabeth Jagger	...	Lisa Fiedler

Alternativ:

Igby (Österreich) (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for language, sexuality and drug content.

Länge:

97 Min | Argentina:99 Min (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:14 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Portugal:M/16 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Zurich) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Brazil:18 | Canada:14A | Denmark:7 | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Germany:12 | Netherlands:12 | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) | Singapore:R(A) (original rating) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R

Drehorte:

Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Firma:

Atlantic Streamline

Dies und das:

Kieran Culkin was actually drinking white grape juice at the Hampton's party.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: Rachel takes Igby's glass away after he spits back the sip he has just taken. In the next shot Igby is holding the glass, but the cigarette has gone.

Dialogzitate:

Igby: Good things come to obsessive-compulsives who fixate.

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Very interesting debut by Burr Steers with uniformly great performances

This film doesn't make us feel for any of its characters, but it's so full of memorable vignettes, it's hard to forget about this. It's dark and depressing but at the same time consistent in tone and so full of wonderful performances it just sticks in your memory.

Igby's life consists of one disappointment after another. We soon meet his ruinantly self-absorbed mother (Susan Sarandon), who treats her boys like full-grown adults. 'I call her Mimi because 'Heinous One' would be a bit cumbersome,' Igby remarks. And there's his schizophrenic dad (Bill Pullman) who has long since been confined to a 'home for the befuddled'. Igby's and his preppy brother Oliver (Ryan Phillippe) have nothing but contempt for their mother. When Igby has just been kicked out - again - of his latest prep school, he is sent to a military academy by his mother, but he swipes her credit card and absconds to an airport hotel in the Midwest. Soon he is dishonorably discharged and sucks his way in by his mother's new wealthy friend D. H. Baines, wonderfully played by Jeff Goldblum, who almost seems to play himself.

Two women play a crucial role in his life, both of them he meets at a cocktail party at "D.H."'s lavish Hamptons home. There's Rachel, a memorable role by Amanda Peet, truly astonishing. I knew her face, but I cannot recall other roles of her. And there is Sookie Sapperstein (Claire Danes), a waitress at the party and couple of years older college student, with whom Igby falls in love. But his brother is becoming a romantic rival or Sookie and when Igby crashes in D.H's fancy Manhattan apartment, in which Rachel is taking residence, he becomes entangled in an ever more downward spiral.

First-time director Burr Steers, who also scripted, filled this one with some very smart, observative and acidic dialog, and Kiera Culkin shows he can carry a film with a very good performance. And where has he been the last four years? Since this one he hasn't appeared in any other films. On the IMDb message boards there are some hilarious speculations about how he is supposedly "on weed". I don't know about that. He's probably going through some rough times, but I hope he'll be back soon. It would be a shame to lose an actor like him.

Camera Obscura --- 8/10